In March 1919 President Woodrow Wilson sent him on a clandestine mission to Moscow to negotiate the removal of Allied troops deployed to Russia during its civil war.
Wrote the play "The Tragedy of Woodrow Wilson".
Graduated from Yale in 1912.
Distantly related to George Washington, Patrick Henry and Pocahontas.
Published a roman a clef of Philadelphia manners and high society, "It's Not Done" that sold more than 150,000 copies.
Washington bureau chief for the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
After the signing of the Armistice ending World War I he accompanied President Woodrow Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference where he headed the American delegation's Division of Current Intelligence Summaries.